{"id":23857,"date":"2010-07-07T08:08:45","date_gmt":"2010-07-07T08:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/pennsylvania-republican-borough-mngr-manages-campaign-for-libertarian-candidate-for-state-rep\/"},"modified":"2010-07-07T08:08:45","modified_gmt":"2010-07-07T08:08:45","slug":"pennsylvania-republican-borough-mngr-manages-campaign-for-libertarian-candidate-for-state-rep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/pennsylvania-republican-borough-mngr-manages-campaign-for-libertarian-candidate-for-state-rep.php","title":{"rendered":"PENNSYLVANIA: Republican Borough Mngr. manages campaign for Libertarian candidate for State Rep."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_Zm6JXvXXze4\/TDHPxM_3WKI\/AAAAAAAAMHc\/SQiOP9F-8Mc\/s1600\/Pennsylvania.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/6a883_Pennsylvania.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a>From Eric Dondero:<\/p><p>In an odd twist, a prominent local elected official - Republican - is now managining a State Rep. campaign of a Libertarian Party candidte.  <\/p><p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/dailyitem.com\/0100_news\/x1385498164\/Borough-manager-directs-campaign-in-spare-time\">Daily Item<\/a>, July 5:<\/p><blockquote><p>SELINSGROVE &mdash; Borough Manager John Bickhart has taken on a new endeavor as campaign manager for Erik Viker, the Libertarian Party candidate in the 85th Legislative District.<\/p><p>Viker is in the second year of a four-year term as a Borough Council member, but Bickhart denies any conflict in aiding his campaign to replace retiring state Rep. Russell H. Fairchild, a Republican from Lewisburg.<\/p><p>\"It's what I do on my private time,\" Bickhart said.<\/p><p>A former Democrat who's now a registered Republican, Bickhart has switched back and forth several times depending on the candidate he's favored.<\/p><p>He found common ground with Viker, who says the two-party political system creates conflict.<\/p><p>Bickhart concedes that Viker has an uphill battle running as a Libertarian against Republican Fred Keller and Democrat Trey Casimir, but views the effort as worthwhile.<\/p><\/blockquote><p>Over 20 Libertarian Party members in addition to Viker, serve in elected\/appointed public office in Pennsylvania, including a County Commissioner in Erie. <\/p><p><em>Editor's Note - this website does not endorse any Libertarian Party candidates running in races where a Republican is on the ballot.<\/em><\/p><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/6a883_7828681836623105417-1352403890169605038?l=www.libertarianrepublican.net\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Eric Dondero:In an odd twist, a prominent local elected official - Republican - is now managining a State Rep. campaign of a Libertarian Party candidte. From the Daily Item, July 5:SELINSGROVE &mdash; Borough Manager John Bickhart has taken on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/pennsylvania-republican-borough-mngr-manages-campaign-for-libertarian-candidate-for-state-rep.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libertarian"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23857"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}